Extras! First buzz for Cloud Atlas, Billy Ray takes on Blue Eyes, Keanu Reeves talks Bill and Ted 3's story, Eric Bana wants to be a Lone Survivor, Jodie Foster is all over Angie's Body and Movie popcorn is worse for you than you thought! Plus much more!

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We kick off today with a little bit of classic bloodshed. Toshiya Fujita’s 1973 film Lady Snowblood was probably one of the biggest influences for Quentin Tarantino’s Kill Bill but it’s not exactly a film that too many people have seen. Now thanks to Arrow Films though, that is soon about to change as they will be releasing the film and its sequel on Blu Ray and VOD on September 24th. And in honour of that release, here’s a new trailer for classic Samurai film:

If you’ve never seen Disney’s Aladdin and happened to find yourself in New York City, then you may just be in luck. The classic Disney animated film is heading to the Broadway stage. Here’s a promo for the adaptation:

Just yesterday we told you about how Bill and Ted 3 got some much needed forward momentum in the form of Galaxy Quest director Dean Parisot. Previously, Keanu Reeves has indicated that they had a script that was ready to go, and now he’s spilled some details on what that script would be about, and if that $2.95 I spent on the How To Understand Keanu Reeves lessons wasn’t a total waste, then it seems like involves some alternate future timelines.

“One of the plot points is that these two people have been crushed by the responsibility of having to write the greatest song ever written and to change the world. And they haven’t done it. So everybody is kind of like: ‘Where is the song?’ The guys have just drifted off into esoterica and lost their rock.”

We go on this expedition, go into the future to find out if we wrote the song, and one future ‘us’ refuses to tell us, and another future ‘us’ blames us for their lives because we didn’t write the song, so they’re living this terrible life. In one version we’re in jail; in another we’re at some kind of highway motel and they hate us.”

So there have been a couple of test screenings for Tom Tykwer and the Wachowski sibling’s highly ambitious Cloud Atlas, and the early buzz from those lucky enough to be in attendance has been pretty good. A few do indicate that the film might not appeal to everybody, but for the most part it seems like the filmmakers may actually have pulled off the near impossible and not just delivered but exceeded their lofty promises.

“It’s wild and ambitious and very funny (Broadbent is amazing), and for a movie that switches genre every few minutes, it’s smooth, swift, and always entertaining… It’s a wild ride. Mixes different genres together like some crazy magic potion.”

If a movie is called Lone Surivor, and your name is not in the biggest font size on the poster, then I have some pretty bad news for your character. But that hasn’t stopped Eric Bana from joining director Peter Berg’s adaptation of the story of SEAL Team 10, who were all wiped out – except for a single soldier in the form of Mark Walbergh – during a botched mission. For the record, the other smaller-fonted actors are Taylor Kitsch, Ben Foster and Emile Hirsch. Despite what I may have thought about Battleship, I’m really excited for this one as Berg’s last militaristic outing, The Kingdom, was pretty great.

Did you know that LEGO, those wonderful little bricks that enriched the mind of many a kid and busted up the feet of many a barefooted parent, are 80 years old this year? In celebration of this, LEGO have released this amazing 17 minute long, Pixar styled CGI animation short giving a history lesson on the toy block’s legacy.

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